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List of ships built

List of ships built and for whom, from Huon Belle built in 1866 by Colin Walker for whom John Wilson worked, Good Intent the first ship built by John Wilson at Martins Point in 1877, One and All, ketch built for Andrewartha in 1878, Birngana, Lottah, Ronnie, Rooganah, etc. to Derwent Hunter built for A.J. Drysdale 1843.

John Wilson

London, Board of Trade : Notices to Mariners

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC N2
  • Collection
  • 1881-1886

Printed papers, notices to mariners from the Board of Trade, London, warning of shoals, alterations to harbour and warning lights and other hazards for marking admiralty charts, dated 1881 to 1886

Board of Trade, London

Loranthus amplexans

Loranthus amplexans

Pencil and coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Darwin, Northern Territory 27/10/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Loranthus amplexans, Mistletoe

Olive Pink

Loranthus exocarpi

Loranthus exocarpi

Water colour on paper painted by Olive Pink at Beltana, South Australia, 19/7/30 Identified by Olive Pink as Loranthus exocarpi

Olive Pink

Loranthus exocarpi

Loranthus exocarpi

Coloured pencil sketched by Olive Pink, Warraweena, Beltana, South Australia 19/7/30 Identified by Olive Pink as Mistletoe Berry - Loranthus exocarpi

Olive Pink

Loranthus miguelii

Loranthus miguelii

Water colour and pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Jay Creek, Northern Territory 27/12/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Loranthus miguelii "veins in leaves lighter and more yellow than leaf - flowers bright red"

Olive Pink

Loranthus migulii

Loranthus migulii

Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Jay Creek, Northern Territory (no date). Identified by Olive Pink as Loranthus migulii

Olive Pink

Loss of Bass voting papers

Tasmanian Government Gazette No. 8337, 1 May 1922. Regulations under the Electoral Acts relating to House of Assembly and Legislative Council Elections and press cutting relating to loss of voting papers in Bass seat after floods .

Robert Cosgrove

Louis Lempriere Dobson : Duff Lectures

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC DX1
  • Collection
  • 1892-1893

Manuscript notes of transcripts of lectures on Jurisprudence and Roman Law given by H Duff, Oxford University

Louis Lempriere Dobson

Lovell Family

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC L8
  • Collection
  • 1885-1962

Collection consists of material relating to the Lovell family including an photograph, copy of a portrait, photocopied letters and an original manuscript

Samuel Ousten Lovell

Lovell home in Yorkshire

Photograph (neg. 35mm) of the Lovell home in Yorkshire, United Kingdon, undated.

Samuel Ousten Lovell

Luigi Blotto

Letters written in Italian with typed translations. He writes of a voyage to Yokohama, the Pacific, San Francisco and a return to Italy, Clark's progress in Italian, warm greetings to Clark, his family and Tasmania

Luigi Blotto

Letters written in Italian with typed translations. He writes of a voyage to Yokohama, the Pacific, San Francisco and a return to Italy, Clark's progress in Italian, warm greetings to Clark, his family and Tasmania

MA diploma, University of Aberdeen

MA diploma, University of Aberdeen 1821. Awarded to George Fordyce Storey. Parchment document in Latin with signatures of moderators of the University, seal tag of blue and pink silk but seal missing.

George Fordyce Story

Maconochie : Convict System

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC W10
  • Collection
  • 1837

Consists of a copy of Alexander Maconochie's report on convict discipline made by George Washington Walker and sent by him to Margaret Bragg, in a volume titled: "Original Essays on convict discipline by Capt. Alexander Maconochie R.N. 1837 with some letters etc in further illustration of the same subject by James Backhouse and George W. Walker 1837".
Contents include Maconochies's report to Sir John Franklin, further observations, summary of papers addressed to British Government, Dr. Turnbull's objections to changes in convict discipline and observations by James Backhouse and George Washington Walker and index. The volume is in George Washington Walker’s handwriting.
At the front is a note on the origin of the manuscript and its presentation to Friends' School by descendants of Margaret Bragg, Roger Clark and John Bright Clark who visited the School in 1898.

Alexander Maconochie

Macrocarpa gregoria

Macrocarpa gregoria

Watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink, "Native Gap" ( Aileron Stn.), 1960. Identified by Olive Pink as Macrocarpa gregoria ( I think) Spinifex Snow - description on back of drawing.

Olive Pink

Macrocarpa gregoria- verso

Macrocarpa gregoria- verso

Description on back of drawing : Louie an aboriginal worker at Aileron Station used to get it for Mrs (Elsie )Cobson (later Nolan) to send to me. Was never able to paint it from the plant and it faded when sent in. An exquisite blossom that grows close to the ground in Spinifex country hence the name Spinifex Snow : Watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink, "Native Gap" ( Aileron Stn.), 1960. Identified by Olive Pink as Macrocarpa gregoria ( I think) Spinifex Snow .

Olive Pink

Magna Carta

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC DX3
  • Collection
  • 1215

Facsimile of the 'Magna Carta' of King John, dated 15 June 1215, Runnymede, from the original manuscript held in the British Museum, (Shelfmark :Cotton MS. Augustus II 106,) with transcription and translation.

John, King of England

Malunnah

Malunnah

Photograph of Malunnah at Orford, Tasmania. Built by writer & artist Louisa Anne Meredith and her husband Charles. The Merediths lived at the house from 1868 until 1888. This photograph was taken by Miss F.M. Kennedy of Swansea

George Musgrave Parker

Mamre House

House built by Rev. Samuel Marsden, St. Mary's, N.S.W.
Print by K. Hill

Mamre House is an 85-hectare property at Orchard Hills in Sydney's west, part of Reverend Samuel Marsden's original South Creek farm established in 1804. Mamre Homestead, built c1820s, was the home of this colonial chaplain, magistrate and pastoralist. It was the working farmhouse of a busy rural property, a model farm which included orchards, exotic pasture and other crops.

Samuel Marsden, in his work at Mamre farm, pioneered the Australian wool industry by importing and breeding the famous merino sheep.

George Musgrave Parker

Manuscript notes on Aborigines

Handwriten manuscript notes and copies of government correspondence concerning aborigines, 1830 - 1832 . Thought to have been compiled c. 1950 - 1970, author unknown

Map of Friends' Meetings in Ireland

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC DX7
  • Collection
  • 1794

Large map of Friends' Meetings in Ireland, 1794, including a list of Meetings for Discipline and dates of Meetings.

Maps

Maps produced and published by the Australian Survey Corps dated 1944-1945
1.Solomon Islands North Navigation Chart
2.Bougainville Island North
3.Bougainville Island South
4.Bougainville Island Cape Moltke
5.Bougainville Island Aita
6.Bougainville Island Inus
7.Bougainville Island Torokina

Roland Arnold Rodda

Margaret (Gunn) Allison Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC A2
  • Collection
  • 1845-1924

The papers include correspondence of Margaret (Gunn) Allison, mainly with her Gunn relatives and also papers of son Frank and his family.

Margaret (Gunn) Allison

Margaret Sturge Watts Collection

Margaret Sturge Watts Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC 2017/1
  • Collection
  • 1906

Papers of Margaret Sturge Watts include photo albums of relief work in Central Europe after World War I, an autograph album, visitors books, journals, an unpublished autobiography, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous items including the notification and congratulatory letters for Margaret Watts' MBE in 1957 for her work in the 'assimiliation of new settlers.'

Margaret Sturge Watts

Marriage

Marriage

Marriage certificate of George Washington Walker and Sarah Benson Mather, married at Friends Meeting House, Hobart. Dated 15th December 1840. Witnessed and signed by many of the respectable inhabitants of the colony

George Washington Walker

Marriage Certificate

Marriage Certificate of M.M. Crane and L.J. Hayns, dated June 18th 1921 , Methodist Chapel, Leicester.

Lawrence John Hayns

Marshall and Terry Family Papers

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC M16
  • Collection
  • 1810-1922

This collection consists of the papers of George Marshalland his grandson George Douglas Marshall who married Beatrice Terry granddaughter of Ralph Terry, of Lachlan Mills, New Norfolk, Tasmania so some papers of the Terry family papers are also included.
Also included are notes on family history and genealogy.

George Marshall

Mathiola

Mathiola

Water colour on dark card sketched by Olive Pink, (place and date unknown) Northern Territory. Identified by Olive Pink as Mathiola?

Olive Pink

MD. diploma, Edinburgh University

MD. diploma, Edinburgh University 1824. Diploma of Doctor of Medicine of King James VI College, Edinburgh (later Edinburgh University) awarded to George Fordyce Storey, the subject of his dissertation being, "acute hydrocephalitis", in Latin, signed by the Principal and by members of the Faculty of Medicine, seal tag of blue silk but seal missing.

George Fordyce Story

Medical memoranda I

Alphabetical memoranda on medical subjects A - L. Title written in Greek on cover with quotation from Ecclesiasticus ch. 38 v. 4

George Fordyce Story

Medical memoranda V

Notes, neatly written, on diseases and medicines, including recipes and also recipes for furniture polish, silk dye, lemonade powder, ginger beer.

George Fordyce Story

Medical Practice

Case notes relating to the Waterloo Convict Station and private patients records, correspondence and accounts, death certificates and vaccinations also drugs, equipment and miscellanious notes

George Fordyce Story

Memorandum

Memorandum

Memorandum regarding the location and the construction of the Temperance Hall at the end of Murry and Davey Street, Hobart dated 1854 and signed George Washington Walker

George Washington Walker

Memorial to the Honourable the Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land

Memorial to the Honourable the Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land

Petition detailing the large portion of human misery, inculding poverty, disease, and crime induced by the use of alcoholic or fermented liquors and asking that the Council enact a law similar to that now in operation in the State of Maine ; which must, by its natural effect, not only entirely banish intemperance and all its consequent evils from the community, but will remove the oppression with which it weighs upon the moral and physical energies of the people, and be the surest means of promoting their social and domestic happiness, and their advancement in wealth, knowledge, and religion.

George Washington Walker

Memories of My Father

Printed booklet illustrated with photographs entitled "Memories of My Father", by David M. Elliott published in 1991.
Consists of memories of Edmund Alfred Elliott (1884-1968) MB.ChM. of Hobart and family, including note about his sisters, Amy Marion Elliott (1874-1913), pupil of Friends High School 1888-94 and the first woman to graduate MSc at the University of Tasmania, and Helenor May (Nell) Elliott (1880-1956) another University of Tasmania graduate, and also his brothers

Edmund Alfred Elliott

Men rescued

Men rescued by lighthouse keepers, L.J. Hayns one of the Lighthouse keepers. Dated 20.10.54 and 22.10.54

Lawrence John Hayns

Mercer Farm Accounts

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC M15
  • Collection
  • 1861-1876

Collection consists of five ledgers containing details of wages and accounts, rations and shearing for two properties, Morningside and Riccarton. Located at Campbell Town in northern Tasmania and owned and managed by James Mercer.

James Mercer

Meston Papers

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC M11
  • Collection
  • c1933-c1958

Research notes, correspondence and drafts of historical studies of the Van Diemen's Land Company, Jorgen Jorgensen, etc. by Archibald Lawrence Meston (1890-1951).

Archibald Lawrence Meston

Microfilm : Amos family papers

  1. Diary of Adam Amos (1774-1845), May 1822 - Dec 1825. A record of chief happenings in the district of Great Swan Port of which he was Chief District Constable, including notes of musters and convict passes, with names.
  2. Adam Amos (1774-1845), letters outward, 1807-1844, mostly to his sons.
  3. Adam Amos (1774-1845, letters inward, 1833-1841, including receipts. 4. James Amos (1804-1864), letters inward, 1837-1850.
  4. James Amos (1804-1864), will.
  5. Letters from George Meredith to his wife Mary, nee Evans, 2 Mar 1823 & 25 Apr 1825.
  6. Letter from George Meredith jun. to Mary Meredith (nee Evans), 6 Aug 1833.
  7. Letter from Maria, Mrs John Meredith (nee Hammond), to her daughter Jessie Meredith, 3 May 1885.
  8. Letter to Captain Thomas Watson sen. From niece EN Rayner (?), 13 Oct 1835.
  9. Letters to Capt. T Watson sen. From George Vaux, 18 Mar 1837 & 10 Nov 1838.
  10. Bill of lading for the shipment from Leith of 4 harrows and 2 ploughs, 23 Jul 1814.
  11. Copy of map in Survey Office signed by J H Wedge, 7 Oct 1826, of grant of George Meredith for 2,000acres at Great Swanport, and a description in handwriting of George Frankland, of additional grant of 1,000 acres.
  12. Letter to Mrs Mary Lyne from Jessie Amos (?), 10 May, 2 Oct.
  13. Letter from Elizabeth Lyne to Mary Amos, n.d.
  14. Letter to Mary Amos from?, 5 May 1839.
  15. Letters from Mrs Louisa Bell (nee Meredith) to Margaret Amos (1809-1896), 26 Aug 1885 & 2 Apr 1886.
    I 7. Letter from Adam Amos to ? , 19 Oct 1872.
  16. Adam Amos to ? Mrs Amos, 1873.
  17. Diary of John Amos, 1 Jan 1840-May1843.
  18. Manuscript copy in 1880-1900 style writing, of "Grandfather Amos' Diary", 1 Jan 1854-21 Jan 1858.

Amos Family

Microfilm : Amos family papers

  1. Receipt book of half and quarter yearly rent paid by James Amos (father of Adam and John (1776-1848), as tenant of Heriot Mill, Galawater, including later editions (1779), of cash expenses of mill, 1774-1845.
  2. Account book of Amos Mill, Cranbrook, VDL, 1824-1836.
    1. Diary of Adam Amos (1807-1874), June 1839
    2. Letterbook (or minute book) of Trustees of estate of John Lord, 1829-1833, including correspondence of Derwent Steam Navigation Company

Amos Family

Microfilm copy of the journals 1847 - 1874

• Reel 1 : Mar. - Dec. 1847
• Reel 2 : Jan. 1848 - Sep. 1855
• Reel 3 : Aug. 1856 - May 1858
• Reel 4 : May 1859 - Sep. 1860
• Reel 5 : Oct. 1860 - Nov. 1862
• Reel 6 : Dec. 1862 - Dec. 1864
• Reel 7 : Jan. 1865 - Dec. 1866
• Reel 8 : Jan. 1867 - Dec. 1869
• Reel 9 : 1870 - 1872
• Reel 10 : Jan. - Oct. 1874
• Reel 11 : Miscellaneous duplicates and ?omissions.

William Archer

Microphone Plays

Plays adapted for radio by Clive Sansom and first broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission for schools only, including correspondence with agent and publishers, contracts, reviews, typescripts: 2 "Thunder Country" from the novel by Armstrong Sperry, adapted for radio by Clive Sansom; 4 "Lost Lagoon" from story by Armstrong Sperry; 5 "Kidnapped" from novel by R.L. Stevenson; 6 "Columbus Sails" from book by C. Walter Hodges; 7 "Lost Horizon" from novel by James Hilton; 9 "Seal Morning" from story by Rowena Farre; 11 "Oliver Twist" from the novel by Charles Dickens; 13 "Nightmare Abbey" from the fantastic novel by T.L. Peacock; 15 "The Golden Apples of the Hesperides" from the Greek legend; 16 "The wooden horse of Troy" from the Greek legend; 17 "The boy who was Afraid" from the South-Sea story by Armstrong Sperry; 18 "The Pardoner's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; 19 "The crowning of dreaming John" dramatisation of poem by John Drinkwater; 20 "At the Tabard Inn" based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; 21 "Town Planning" a documentary by Clive Sansom; 22 "Trees and Forestry" a documentary by Clive Sansom; 23 "A book is written" a documentary by Clive Sansom, prepared for "Book Week" in Tasmania; 24 "Conservation Day" a documentary by Clive Sansom.

Clive Sansom

Midwood Collection

Midwood Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC M7
  • Collection
  • c1903

Collection of framed caricatures drawn by Thomas Claude Wade Midwood depicting colleagues, members of Midwoods household and local Hobart characters. Most identified.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

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